Cell therapy: types, regulation, and clinical benefits

AEH El-Kadiry, M Rafei, R Shammaa - Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cell therapy practices date back to the 19th century and continue to expand on
investigational and investment grounds. Cell therapy includes stem cell-and non–stem cell …

MYC: connecting selective transcriptional control to global RNA production

TR Kress, A Sabò, B Amati - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2015 - nature.com
Two opposing models have been proposed to describe the function of the MYC oncoprotein
in shaping cellular transcriptomes: one posits that MYC amplifies transcription at all active …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cell clustering shapes DNA methylation to enable metastasis seeding

S Gkountela, F Castro-Giner, BM Szczerba, M Vetter… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The ability of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to form clusters has been linked to increased
metastatic potential. Yet biological features and vulnerabilities of CTC clusters remain …

Cooperative binding of transcription factors orchestrates reprogramming

C Chronis, P Fiziev, B Papp, S Butz, G Bonora, S Sabri… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and cMyc (OSKM) reprogram somatic cells to pluripotency. To
gain a mechanistic understanding of their function, we mapped OSKM-binding, stage …

[HTML][HTML] Master transcription factors and mediator establish super-enhancers at key cell identity genes

WA Whyte, DA Orlando, D Hnisz, BJ Abraham, CY Lin… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Summary Master transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, and Nanog bind enhancer elements and
recruit Mediator to activate much of the gene expression program of pluripotent embryonic …

Single cell RNA-sequencing of pluripotent states unlocks modular transcriptional variation

AA Kolodziejczyk, JK Kim, JCH Tsang, T Ilicic… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Embryonic stem cell (ESC) culture conditions are important for maintaining long-term self-
renewal, and they influence cellular pluripotency state. Here, we report single cell RNA …

The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome

RE Thurman, E Rynes, R Humbert, J Vierstra… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
DNase I hypersensitive sites (DHSs) are markers of regulatory DNA and have underpinned
the discovery of all classes of cis-regulatory elements including enhancers, promoters …

[HTML][HTML] Histone modifications regulate pioneer transcription factor cooperativity

KK Sinha, S Bilokapic, Y Du, D Malik, M Halic - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Pioneer transcription factors have the ability to access DNA in compacted chromatin.
Multiple transcription factors can bind together to a regulatory element in a cooperative way …

Transcription factor trapping by RNA in gene regulatory elements

AA Sigova, BJ Abraham, X Ji, B Molinie, NM Hannett… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Transcription factors (TFs) bind specific sequences in promoter-proximal and-distal DNA
elements to regulate gene transcription. RNA is transcribed from both of these DNA …

Hallmarks of pluripotency

A De Los Angeles, F Ferrari, R Xi, Y Fujiwara… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Stem cells self-renew and generate specialized progeny through differentiation, but vary in
the range of cells and tissues they generate, a property called developmental potency …